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MAT 120 - Modern College Mathematics

Course Description

This course is designed to give students in the non-science fields an appreciation of and experience in using the concepts, logical reasoning and problem-solving techniques involved in various fields of mathematics. It fulfills the mathematics elective for liberal arts, administration of justice, early childhood education, fire-science technology and general education majors.
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
Use the notation and operations of set theory.
Use inductive and deductive reasoning as appropriate to draw a logical conclusion from given information.
Represent numbers and add, subtract, multiply and divide in numeration systems other than base 10.
Plus, choose two of the following three competencies:
Analyze the real-number system.
Solve linear equations and inequalities using algebraic and graphic techniques.
Use ratios, proportions and percent to solve consumer-related problems.